About the Authors

Robert Kleemann

Robert.Kleemann@tno.nl

Affiliations Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Vascular Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Marjan van Erk

Affiliation Quality of Life, Physiological Genomics, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Lars Verschuren

Affiliations Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Vascular Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Anita M. van den Hoek

Affiliation Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Maud Koek

Affiliation Quality of Life, Analytical Research, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Peter Y. Wielinga

Affiliations Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Annie Jie

Affiliation Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Linette Pellis

Affiliation Quality of Life, Physiological Genomics, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Ivana Bobeldijk-Pastorova

Affiliation Quality of Life, Analytical Research, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Thomas Kelder

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Karin Toet

Affiliations Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Suzan Wopereis

Affiliation Quality of Life, Physiological Genomics, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Nicole Cnubben

Affiliation Quality of Life, Physiological Genomics, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Chris Evelo

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ben van Ommen

Affiliation Quality of Life, Physiological Genomics, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Teake Kooistra

Affiliation Quality of Life, Vascular and Metabolic Disease, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Authors employed by TNO (R.K., M.v.E., A.J., L.V., A.M.v.d.H., M.K, P.Y.W, L.P., I.B.–P., K.T., S.W., N.C., B.v.O., and T.K.) and the Top Institute Food and Nutrition (R.K., P.Y.W., and K.T.) have a potential conflict of interest as their organizations may benefit from a product or patent generated on the basis of the published data. In these cases, the authors will however not receive additional salary, additional personal income, or any form of financial support.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK AMvdH BvO TK. Performed the experiments: RK LV AMvdH MK PYW AJ IBP KT. Analyzed the data: RK MvE LV AMvdH MK PYW AJ LP IBP TK KT SW NC CE TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP IBP NC CE BvO TK. Wrote the paper: RK TK. Extensive reviewing and editing of the paper: MvE.